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Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin is co-founder and director of the AMCHA Initiative, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to combating antisemitism at colleges and universities in the United States. She served as a faculty member in Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, from 1996 to 2016.

Faculty have been encouraged to engage in “anti-normalization”—in other words, the total exclusion of Zionist perspectives, speakers and programs from academic life.
The American Association of University Professors’ reversal of its opposition to academic boycotts is a blow not just to Jewish students but to society.
The verbal harassment of Jewish and pro-Israel students is generally treated as free speech and ignored or downplayed by school administrators.
Julianne Malveaux’s anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist views are not unique—in fact, they are shared by many others in the discipline, including at her own institution.
The governor promised that California’s original ethnic studies curriculum “would never see the light of day,” but Hayward Unified School District has approved a new model that sparks similar concerns.
University leaders across the country must loudly condemn faculty who would implement an academic boycott of Israel that deprives students of educational opportunities and academic rights in the name of personal politics.
In the wake of recent controversies involving the disruption and canceling of campus events, many university leaders have adopted the University of Chicago’s statement on freedom of speech—a statement that has become the gold standard on free speech for universities across the country.